Description
void
header ( string string [, bool replace [, int http_response_code]] )
header() is used to send raw
HTTP headers. See the HTTP/1.1 specification for more
information on HTTP headers.
The optional replace parameter indicates
whether the header should replace a previous similar header, or
add a second header of the same type. By default it will replace,
but if you pass in FALSE as the second argument you can force
multiple headers of the same type. For example:
The second optional http_response_code force the
HTTP response code to the specified value. (This parameter is available
in PHP 4.3.0 and higher.)
There are two special-case header calls. The first is a header
that starts with the string "HTTP/" (case is not
significant), which will be used to figure out the HTTP status
code to send. For example, if you have configured Apache to
use a PHP script to handle requests for missing files (using
the ErrorDocument directive), you may want to
make sure that your script generates the proper status code.
Замечание:
The HTTP status header line will always be the first sent
to the client, regardless of the actual header()
call being the first or not. The status may be overridden
by calling header() with a new status line
at any time unless the HTTP headers have already been sent.
Замечание:
In PHP 3, this only works when PHP is compiled as an Apache
module. You can achieve the same effect using the
Status header.
The second special case is the "Location:" header. Not only does
it send this header back to the browser, but it also returns a
REDIRECT (302) status code to the browser unless
some 3xx status code has already been set.
Замечание:
HTTP/1.1 requires an absolute URI as argument to
Location:
including the scheme, hostname and absolute path, but
some clients accept relative URIs. You can usually use
$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']
and dirname() to make an absolute URI from a
relative one yourself:
PHP scripts often generate dynamic content that must not be cached
by the client browser or any proxy caches between the server and the
client browser. Many proxies and clients can be forced to disable
caching with:
Замечание:
You may find that your pages aren't cached even if you don't
output all of the headers above. There are a number of options
that users may be able to set for their browser that change its
default caching behavior. By sending the headers above, you should
override any settings that may otherwise cause the output of your
script to be cached.
Additionally, session_cache_limiter() and
the session.cache_limiter configuration
setting can be used to automatically generate the correct
caching-related headers when sessions are being used.
Remember that header() must be
called before any actual output is sent, either by normal HTML
tags, blank lines in a file, or from PHP. It is a very common
error to read code with include(), or
require(), functions, or another file access
function, and have spaces or empty lines that are output before
header() is called. The same problem exists
when using a single PHP/HTML file.
Замечание:
As of PHP 4, you can use output buffering to get around this problem,
with the overhead of all of your output to the browser being buffered
in the server until you send it. You can do this by calling
ob_start() and ob_end_flush()
in your script, or setting the output_buffering
configuration directive on in your php.ini or
server configuration files.
If you want the user to be prompted to save the data you are
sending, such as a generated PDF file, you can use the Content-Disposition header to
supply a recommended filename and force the browser to display the
save dialog.
Замечание:
There is a bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 that prevents
this from working. There is no workaround. There is also a bug
in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 that interferes with this,
which can be resolved by upgrading to Service Pack 2 or later.
Замечание:
If safe mode is enabled the
uid of the script is added to the realm part
of the WWW-Authenticate header if you set
this header (used for HTTP Authentication).
Смотрите также headers_sent(),
setcookie(), and the section on
HTTP authentication.